the overwhelming majority of the early church leaders (fathers) were premillennial and believed in a literal 1000 yr. kingdom.
today, 2/3 of christians are amillennial.
i do not want to imply that amilennialists, are not christian.
Its not just the jw hierarchy that uses physiological manipulation and coercive control over its followers, ALL religion's use there man made doctrines to control and manipulate their followers .
People just need to take some time to educate themselves about what physiological manipulation and coercive control is and how it is used to gain control over people.
i'll just shoot this short comment that i found interesting.
the gospel of mark at 15:22 says: then they brought him to the place golgotha, which is translated, place of a/the skull (singular noun).. it might be surprising to learn there is no ancient record of any topographical location called "place of the skull".
so, is that because of loss of information or is it suggestive that the 'place of the skull' had more christological meaning?
Thanks again peacefulpete.
Legend says that shem and melchizedek recovered Adams body from Noah's ark and angels guided them to golgotha to bury his bones so the blood of christ flowed down to cleanse Adams bones of original sin.
i don't think it is possible to believe in jesus and then not believe what he said.
the purpose of the watchtower organization is to take as many people to hell as possible.
they do this by tricking people into rejecting the bare minimum requirements for the free gift of salvation that jesus offered to ”whosoever”.. one of the stipulations for salvation is belief that jesus was raised from the dead:.
Your free to believe in what ever you want regardless if it's true or not.
There is no evidence that a miracle worker called jesus existed.
And if he did, again their is no way to confirm with any certainty that he said those words. As the gospels were written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events.
4/24 archeology magazine.
"the taş tepeler, or stone mounds, in southeastern turkey’s şanlıurfa province arc roughly 125 miles along the foothills of the taurus mountains, overlooking the harran plain and the balikh river, a tributary of the euphrates.
the region features plateaus amid modest mountains.
Adam and eve are part of the creation myths, influenced by babylonian and other middle eastern myths, possibly dated around 600 BCE.
so i guess the "paradise" earth is going to be stinky to the point of vomiting with 6 billion dead bodies of not witnesess.
how long would it take to bury these people?
maybe 2 years.
Did fred Franz not have the mad idea that god could use anti matter to dispose of the bodies after armageddon.
back when the dinosaur soft tissue story was broken in 2005, i predicted that that many more soft tissues would be found and that it wouldn't matter if it was supposedly "65 million" years old or "165 million" years old.
the prediction has proven true and dinosaur soft tissue is routinely now found regardless of supposed age.
this is easy to predict using a literal reading of genesis and accepting it as history.... .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_time
Deep time spans billions of years not just 6000 years .
back when the dinosaur soft tissue story was broken in 2005, i predicted that that many more soft tissues would be found and that it wouldn't matter if it was supposedly "65 million" years old or "165 million" years old.
the prediction has proven true and dinosaur soft tissue is routinely now found regardless of supposed age.
this is easy to predict using a literal reading of genesis and accepting it as history.... .
As far as I remember as a jw ,each creative day was a 1000 year, so 6000 years took us to 1975.
And then because of advances in understanding the age of the earth etc it was changed to each day being a undisclosed period of time.
The bible is not a scientific book, it's a book of fiction and mythology. So why anyone would believe that it is to be taken literally in the 21st century is beyond sensibility and to ignore and dismiss the overwhelming evidence for the age of the earth etc.
back when the dinosaur soft tissue story was broken in 2005, i predicted that that many more soft tissues would be found and that it wouldn't matter if it was supposedly "65 million" years old or "165 million" years old.
the prediction has proven true and dinosaur soft tissue is routinely now found regardless of supposed age.
this is easy to predict using a literal reading of genesis and accepting it as history.... .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_science
Young earth creationists uses pseudoscience to promote its beliefs, and they refuse to acknowledge the advances in modern day science and the technological advances in understanding human history and evolution.
Sea breeze
You should read your own comment and see if it applies to yourself. You are allowing yourself to be controlled by your belief system as you were when you were a jw .
back when the dinosaur soft tissue story was broken in 2005, i predicted that that many more soft tissues would be found and that it wouldn't matter if it was supposedly "65 million" years old or "165 million" years old.
the prediction has proven true and dinosaur soft tissue is routinely now found regardless of supposed age.
this is easy to predict using a literal reading of genesis and accepting it as history.... .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology_in_Pennsylvania
Humans didn't exist during this time period.
back when the dinosaur soft tissue story was broken in 2005, i predicted that that many more soft tissues would be found and that it wouldn't matter if it was supposedly "65 million" years old or "165 million" years old.
the prediction has proven true and dinosaur soft tissue is routinely now found regardless of supposed age.
this is easy to predict using a literal reading of genesis and accepting it as history.... .
Humans didn't exist in the carboniferous period.
You should post the article regarding your claim, so that we can read what Dawkins actually said.
